Pathfounders Live: With Richa Kaul, Founder & CEO of Complyance

Pathfounders Live: With Richa Kaul, Founder & CEO of Complyance, in conversation with Pathfounders Editor Mike Butcher, followed by a live audience Q&A. Subjects covered during the interview and Q&A:* Why compliance is suddenly becoming a boardroom issue* How AI is changing governance, risk and compliance* The hidden danger of employees using “Shadow AI” via their personal accounts* Why third-party vendors are now one of the biggest enterprise risks* How AI agents can monitor company risk in real time* What the Equifax breach taught Richa Kaul about consumer data* Why protecting consumers means protecting the companies that hold their data* How Complyance raised a $20M Series A led by GV* Richa’s unusual fundraising strategy, informed by a Silicon Valley playbook* Why founders may be oversharing with VCs too early* Whether SaaS is dead, or simply being rebuilt around AI agents* The shift from software as a “system of record” to a “system of action”* Why AI-native startups operate differently from traditional SaaS* How AI is reshaping sales, engineering and implementation teams* The future of junior jobs in an AI-powered workforce* Why compliance teams may actually become more strategic, not less relevant* How the EU AI Act could reshape enterprise compliance* Why legal and compliance teams interpret regulation differently* Why fully agentic systems still need guardrails and human judgment* Who audits the AI — and why AI governance standards matter* Why the future of software may be about selling outcomes, not tools* What still does not scale in an AI-native company* Which AI tool Richa Kaul uses personallyThanks to our partners for supporting this event: Halkin Offices: For a prime address, exceptional workplace design, and award-winning customer service - all under one roof. Just contact Oliver Kingshott on [email protected]: Nebius is building the ultimate cloud for AI, with a single platform that spans the entire AI journey — from data and model training and tuning to production runtime and deployment. To find out more please contact their team.